“The life of art after the “death of God”: philosophical foundations of modern art” - course 2800 rub. from MSU, training 15 weeks. (4 months), Date: December 7, 2023.

Topic 1. Introduction: How Art Became Modern
The case of Repin’s painting: a dispute between old and new art.
Is contemporary art still art? Cartography of the conceptual field: avant-garde, modern/modernism, postmodern/postmodernism, postmodern situation, metamodernism. Where are we now? What makes a thing art? The concept of mimesis in ancient philosophy and the principles of classical art. Has art always been imitative? The crisis of representation and the birth of abstract art. Essentialist and non-essentialist theories of art. From the readymade (M. Duchamp) to institutional theory (J. Dickey and A. Danto). The concepts of the “art world” and the “end of art” by A. Danto.

Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature.
Testing

Topic 2. Art after the “death of God”
The notorious year 1913. Ideological forerunners of non-classics. What is a concept? What does Nietzsche's words “God is dead” mean? Interpretation of the Nietzschean concept by M. Heidegger. Who else is dying in 20th century culture? Death of Big Style /V. Veidle. From the death of God to the death of the author / M. Foucault, R. Bart/. Death of the Reader. The concept of “open work” by W. Eco.

Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature.
Testing

Topic 3. Russian avant-garde as a new ontology (2 lectures)
Modernism and avant-garde in art. Russian symbolism and Russian religious philosophy.
Rayonism as the first movement towards abstraction. What does Malevich’s “Black Square” mean? Suprematism as going beyond the “zero” of forms.
Assignment for independent work: studying recommended literature
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Topic 4. Abstract art trajectories
The influence of anthroposophy R. Steiner on avant-garde art. The theory of non-objective art by Wassily Kandinsky. Analytical method P. Filonov as a premonition of Deleuze.
Assignment for independent work: studying recommended literature
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Topic 5. Western avant-garde: passion for the real. Basic approaches to the study of contemporary art
Paths of European abstraction. From cubism to neoplasticism: geometric abstraction in the reading of P. Mondrian. De Stijl program. "Lattice" R. Krauss. Psychoanalysis and its influence on art (Dadaism, surrealism). Art is like a dream. Basic approaches to the study of art in modern theories of art.

Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature.
Testing.

Topic 6. Second avant-garde. From abstract expressionism to minimalism and pop art
Non-objective art and its American heirs. Abstract expressionism and minimalism as a reaction to psychoanalysis and the European avant-garde. Jackson Pollock: factors that influenced the development of “the best artist of his time.” The concept of the avant-garde K. Greenberg. From the “death of God” to the “death of the subject” (M. Foucault). The concept of “death of the author” (R. Bart) and their corresponding artistic practices. E. Warhol: the art of selling. The birth of minimalism.

Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature. Testing

Topic 7. Art in the era of technical reproducibility. Concepts V. Benjamin and the loudest debates about new art.
How does the mode of perception of a work of art change in the era of its technical reproducibility? The debate between Benjamin and Adorno about auratic and liberating art. Aura decay. Has the aura really disintegrated? Aestheticization of politics and politicization of art. "The Age of Poets". "Fugue of Death" P. Celana. G. Marcuse on the affirmative nature of culture. M. Heidegger and M. Shapiro: dispute about the nature of art. Van Gogh's shoes as a meme. So what is avant-garde in art? Avant-garde theories in search of a common denominator (K. Greenberg, G. Rosenberg, R. Krauss)

Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature. Testing

Topic 8. Conceptualism: art as an idea
"Art after Philosophy" by J. Kossuth. American linguistic and Russian romantic conceptualism. The influence of the philosophy of language of L. Wittgenstein on the emergence of American conceptualism. Art after philosophy (J. Kossuth, Sol Levite). Moscow romantic conceptualism and unofficial art of the 60s-70s of the XX century. Concepts and conceptual characters of Moscow conceptualism. Conceptualism and social art. How a concept becomes an artistic gesture: typology. Does non-conceptual contemporary art exist?

Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature.
Creative task

Topic 9. From institutional theory of art to criticism of institutions. The end of art?
 Why does art leave the museum? The “white cube” concept B. O'Doherty. From the readymade (M. Duchamp) to institutional theory (J. Dickey and A. Danto). The concepts of the “art world” and the “end of art” by A. Danto. Criticism of the principle of “selectivity” of the museum. What is a medium in art? The theory of the end of the medium-specificity of modern art. "The Eagle's Verdict" M. Broodthaers as the beginning of postmodern institutional criticism. Criticism of the theory of the post-medial state of contemporary art (R. Krauss). The concept of the “society of the spectacle” by Guy Debord. Museum as a conductor of art recovery. The first signs of non-institutional art. Land-art. Site-specific art. Street-art. Net-art. The concept of “non-place” in American and continental art

Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature.
Creative task

Topic 10. From the aesthetics of an object to the aesthetics of relationships. Performance between aesthetic and ethical 
“Aesthetics of Relationships” N. Bourriaud. Performative turn in modern culture. Artists are pioneers of performance (Vali Export, Marina Abramovich, “Collective Actions” by Andrei Monastyrsky). Performance is everywhere. The concept of the performative turn. Political vs artistic actionism. The structure of the performance. Recuperation of performance (Case of the art group “Pussy-Riot”) and institutionalization of political art. Post-peraist theories about the crisis of performance in the situation of post-Fordist capitalism
Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature. Testing.

Topic 10. When silent voices find voice: problems of the postcolonial world through the prism of contemporary art
The concept of discourse M. Foucault. Privileged discourses and marginality as a social construction. Criticism of phallogocentrism and femininity in contemporary art. Postcolonial studies as an attempt to move beyond Eurocentrism. Problems of the postcolonial world through the prism of curatorial practices. Revisiting “Earthbenders” (1989). A transhistorical approach to the curating of J.-Y. Martin: multiculturalism in contemporary art.

Assignment for independent work: study of recommended literature.
 Preparation of the final essay.

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